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PENNSYLVANIA 
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
FOURTH SERIES 


TOPOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGIC 


ATLAS 
of 
PENNSYLVANIA 


NO. 178 
NEW HOLLAND QUADRANGLE 


GEOLOGY AND. .MINERAL RESOURCES 


By 


ANNA I: JONAS 
PENNSYLVANIA TOPOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGIC SURVEY 


and 


GEORGE W. STOSE 
U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 








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Description by Anna I. Jonas , 3 Sec 
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Department of Forests and Waters 
R. Y. Stuart, Secretary 


Topographic and Geologic Survey 
G. H. Ashley, State Geologist 





COPYRIGHTED 1926 
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Secretary, Department of Forests and Waters 
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ILLUSTRATIONS. 
PLATE Page 
I. Topographic map of the New Holland quadrangle ............. In pocket 
II. Geologie map of the.New Holland quadrangle ........t...2... In pocket 


Ill. <A. Conestoga Creek near Martinsdale. Burkholder crushed limestone 
bin in foreground; B. Millard limestone quarry, Denver ........ Ze 


IV. A. Kurtz Bros. limestone quarry, Ephrata; B. Shreiner limestone 
(uarry,. BDEOWNStOWN sa ic mtn so are tee ee ne ete eet eae eee cee ee ee 26 


Vv. A. Clay pit of United Clay Brick Co., Ephrata; B. Sand pit in de- 
composed. Triassic sandstone, wiurrell 2 onc... es se cae oeeateea neceeeee an 


VI. A. Dam on Conestoga Creek, Brownstown; B. Dam on Mill Creek 
BEM ASCO tiara csel ars een, evare ae a SIE Eaca oeasl hoe Site tosh =o cena ae acai wane es 


VII. A. Dam on Mill Creek at Fertility and site of Denninger limestone 
quarry; B. Water power on Muddy Run one-half mile north of 
Leacdek Gharehs fect Soe a ee a ae eS a ; 35 


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“GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES 

OF THE NEW HOLLAND QUADRANGLE, 
PENNSYLVANIA. 


By ANNA [. JONAS. 


INTRODUCTION. 
Location and area. 


The New Holland quadrangle is in southeastern Pennsylvania 
and covers parts of Lancaster and Berks counties. It comprises an 
area of 234 square miles between parallels 40° and 40° 15’ and 
meridians 76° and 76° 15’. The greater part of the area les in 
Lancaster County, only the extreme northeast corner belonging to 
Berks County. There are no large towns in the quadrangle. Eph 
rata with a population of 37385 inhabitants is larger than New Hol- 
land, the town from which the quadrangle is named. 


The Philadelphia Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which 
is a portion of the main line between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, 
crosses the southwestern part of the area and the central part is 
crossed from east to southwest by the New Holland Branch of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad, which extends from Lancaster to Honey- 
brook. The Columbia Division of the Philadelphia and Reading 
Railroad passes through Ephrata and Denver and connects them 
with Columbia, Lancaster, and Reading. An extensive trolley sys- 
tem operated by the Conestoga Traction Company radiates from 
Lancaster on the southwestern border of this quadrangle, and one 
branch of this system terminates in the area at Terre Hill. This 
is a branch of the electric railway to Ephrata and Adamstown, 
where there is a connection with a Reading line. The third trolley 
line follows the old Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike, now the 
Lincoln Highway, southeastward and terminates at Coatesville 15 
miles to the southeast of the New Holland quadrangle. 


Previous Geologic Work. 


The first work in the region was done by Rogers for the First Geo- 
logical Survey of Pennsylvania.’ He describes the lower Cambrian 
quartzite series as Primal sandstone and the overlying limestones 
as “Auroral”, being equivalent to the Black River-Chazy limestone 
of New York. The area was resurveyed by the Second Geological 
Survey of Pennsylvania, and the results are shown on the map of 


JRogers, Henry D., Third Annual Report on the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania: pp. 11-17, 
839. 


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Form No. 178. 


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Lancaster County for 1880,* published with the County report. The 
Second Pennsylvania Survey separated Eozoic gneisses, Cambrian 
quartzite and slates and argillites, and Cambro-Silurian limestone, 
overlain by Mesozoic sandstone and shale with intrusive trap. In 
1893 Walcott’ undertook a reconnaissance of the Cambrian rocks be- 
tween the Susquehanna and Delaware rivers and from studies of 
the area south and southwest of the New Holland quadrangle es- 
tablished the lower part of the limestone series as Lower Cambrian 
and the underlying Scolithus-bearing quarzite series also as Lower 
Cambrian and not Potsdam or Upper Cambrian as they had been 
called by Lesley in 1880. 


Recent Geologic Work. 


No further work was done in this area until the present survey 
was begun by the writer, in cooperation with George W. Stose, of 
the United States Geological Survey in 1921. The detailed mapping 
of the New Holland quadrangle was completed by them during parts 
of the field seasons of 1922 and 192: 

The names and a brief aeacrhntien of the formations were pub- 
lished in 1922 in a preliminary report* based on the work of G. W. 
Stose and the writer in the New Holland quadrangle and in adjoin- 
ing areas to the east, west and southwest, and of EK. B. Knopf and 
the writer in the Quarryville and McCalls Ferry quadrangles which 
He south of the New Holland quadrangle. This article was followed 
a year later by a description’ of overlap of the Ordovician Conestoga 
limestone on older Paleozoic sediments. The relations of the pre- 
Cambrian crystallines and Paleozoic rocks of Welsh Mountain and 
vicinity were described in the same year in a discussion of the 
crystalline schists of Pennsylvania and Marvyland?. 

The photographs for the illustrations in this report were made 
by R. W. Stone, assistant State Geologist, in April, 1925. Mr. Stone 
furnished considerable data for the descriptions of quarries, and 
wrote the paragraphs on water supply, wells, and water power. 


SURFACE RELIEF AND DRAINAGE. 


Contour Lines. 


The area is mostly rolling valley country, with hilly country in 
the north and north-central part. A spur of Welsh Mountains is 
in the eastern-central part. These divisions are shown on the topo- 
graphic map by the relations of the contour lines, printed in brown, 


. ?F ‘yazer, Persifor, Jr., Geology of. Lancaster County: Second Geol. Survey of Pa., vol. CCC, 
1880. 

3Waleott, C. D., Cambrian, rocks of Pennsylyania: U. §. Geol. Survey Bull. 134, 1896. 

- 4Stase, Ge W. and Jonas, A. I., The Lower Paleozoic section of southeastern Pennsy lvania: 
Wash. Acad. Sci. SOUE SV VOl Lo a0. mo, seni Oo a2. 

5Stose, G. W., and Jonas, A. ie Ordovician ov erlap in the Piedmont Province of Pennsylvania 
and -Maryland. Geol. Soe. ‘Am. Bull., vol. 84, pp. 507-524, September, 1923. 

Si<nopt, Hh. Ba and Jonas, Anai., Stratigraphy of the erystalline schists of Pennsylvan‘a and 
Maryland: Amer. Jour.. Sci., ‘vol. ee pp. 40-61, January, 1923. 





which are closest together in the hilly areas mentioned, where the 
slopes are steepest and the differences in heights are greatest, and 
farthest apart in the more nearly level valley country. Each of the 
spaces between adjacent lines represents a difference in altitude of 
20 feet and every fifth line or hundred-foot line is drawn heavier and 
numbered. The contour lines indicate both heights above sea level 
and steepness of slope. They show also the shapes of the hills and 
valleys. The topography was surveyed in 1905 and 1906 by the U.S. 
Geological Survey in cooperation with the State of Pennsylvania. 


Drainage. 


The area is drained by Conestoga and Pequea creeks and their 
branches. Both these creeks are tributaries of Susquehanna River 
into which they flow about 12 miles southwest of the New Holland 
area. Conestoga Creek and its tributary Cocalico Creek, Pequea 
Creek, and Mill Creek are the principal streams. The drainage is 
roughly from northeast to southwest. The Brecknock Hills of the 
northern part of the New Holland area and Welsh Mountain form 
part of the highland dividing Susquehanna drainage from the Schuyl- 
kill drainage. The size of the creeks is shown in Plates III A, VI 
and VII. 


Altitude. 


The highest point in the area is the top of Welsh Mountain 1100 
feet above sea level. This mountain is a spur of the main ridge 
which extends 10 miles eastward, north of Honeybrook. It is 1,000 
to 1,100 feet high and rises 600 feet above the nearby valley. The 
hills in the northern part of the area, which may be called the Breck- 
nock Hills from the township of that name, attain an elevation of 
900 feet in Berks County. They are lower southwestward toward 
Ephrata and Akron where they are 780 and 500 feet high respec- 
tively. The hills in the southern part of the area are lower. Pequea 
Creek has cut down its valley to 320 feet and Conestoga Creek. at 
the western border of the area is 280 feet above sea level. 


General Character of Surface. 


The New Holland quadrangle is part of the physiographic division 
of the eastern United States known as the Piedmont province. The 
topography of the province falls into two types—a _ well-dissected 
upland with wide flat hill summits and a gently-rolling lowland 
broken by occasional long low hills trending somewhat north of east. 
The New Holland quadrangle contains both these types of topography. 

The Brecknock Hills and Welsh Mountain belong to the well-dis- 
sected" upland type. They have some flat tops and rise 400 to 600 
feet above the lower and more level surface of the larger part of the 


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quadrangle. This lower level is part of the Lancaster Valley region, 
which is gently-rolling with long flat-topped hills rising slightly 
above it. The upland summits are for the most part wooded and are 
a pleasing contrast to the fertile farming lands that occupy the wide 
areas of comparatively slight relief. 


THE ROCKS. 


General Statement. 


The area contains both sedimentary and igneous rocks. The sedi-. 


mentary rocks were deposited in or by water and consisted of con- 
glomerates, sandstones, shales and limestones. Some of these rocks 
have been hardened by heat, pressure, and the addition of material 
and recrystallized into quartzites, slates, phyllites, and crystalline 
limestones. Rocks of this type belong to the pre-Cambrian and 
Paleozoic eras, and underlie nine-tenths of the surface. The Paleozoic 
rocks are mostly limestones and form the chief economic interest 
of the region. The younger, Triassic sediments of the northern one- 
tenth part of the area are little altered since their formation, and 
consist of conglomerate, sandstone, and shale. 

The igneous rocks are represented by gabbro and granite of pre- 
Cambrian age and by Triassic diabase which is the youngest rock 
of the area. The igneous rocks which were once molten rock were 
forced up into the sediments and solidified when they were deeply 
buried in the earth. Subsequent erosion and removal of the overlying 
rocks has exposed them at the surface as we now see them. 


Character of the Outcrops. 


The sedimentary rocks were originally in nearly horizontal beds 
when deposited in the sea, but at the present time none of the sedi- 
ments lie in this position. The least disturbed are the Triassic rocks, 
which have been tilted gently northwestward; the older rocks of the 
area are in most places steeply inclined and folded into long, wide 
troughs or synclines and narrower arches or anticlines which trend 
somewhat southwestward. In the softer rocks the pressure which 
produced the folding has given rise to a secondary structure called 
cleavage. The cleavage planes are parallel, closely spaced, usually 
inclined at an angle to and obscure the bedding. Besides being folded, 
the rocks have been broken by faults which have dislocated them 
from their normal position, so that outcrops of the beds are repeated 
at some places and concealed or removed at others. 

After being folded and broken the rocks were worn down by pro- 
cesses of atmospheric decay and erosion. The harder rocks, quartz- 
ites, slates, conglomerates, and sandstones, are exposed in the higher 
regions because of their resistance to erosion while the softer and 


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more soluble limestones underlie the valleys. These valley areas 
underlain by limestone are covered by a deep and fertile soil and 
natural outcrops occur chiefly along streams or on the steeper slopes. 
of hills. The harder rocks produce thinner soil and thei outcrops 
are more numerous on the steeper hill slopes. Even on these hill 
slopes, which are usually wooded, natural outcrops are few and the 
best rock exposures are artificial, as in road cuts, quarries, and rail- 
road cuts. The deepest railroad cuts are along the Philadelphia 
Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad where fresh rock sections 20 
feet deep occur for the most part southeast of Leaman Place. 
PRE-CAMBRIAN SYSTEM. 
Graphitic Gneiss. 

The oldest rock in the region is a graphitic gneiss which occurs in 
a small area south of Welsh Mountain and near Pleasant View 
School. The rock, a gneiss of sedimentary origin, is composed of 
feldspar, quartz, biotite, and in many places graphite, and it is 
interbedded with hornblende schists. It is a part of a larger area of 
eneiss which is exposed in the Honeybrook upland east of the Plea- 
sant View School area where it contains valuable deposits of graph- 
ite, and is believed to be equivalent to the Baltimore gneiss. 


Granite and Gabbro. 


The graphitic gneiss has been intruded by granite and gabbro 
which occur in an area south of Mount Airy. The granite is a light- 
colored rock of granular texture composed of the minerals quartz, 
feldspar, and dark-colored minerals, biotite and hornblende, and 
epidote. Gabbro, also a granular rock but dark green in color, is 
made up of a soda-lime feldspar and dark mineral pyroxene or horn- 
blende. These rocks were intruded into the pre-Cambrian sediments 
before the Paleozoic rocks were deposited. 


LOWHR CAMBRIAN SERIES. 


The Lower Cambrian series which unconformably overlies the pre- 
Cambrian rocks of Welsh Mountain is composed of the Chickies 
quartzite with the Hellam conglomerate member at the base, the 
Harpers phyllite, and Antietam quartzite and quartz schist. The 
Antietam calcareous quartzite grades upward into and is overlain 
by the Vintage dolomite which, together with the Kinzers formation 
and Ledger dolomite, compose the equivalent of the Lower Cambrian 
Tomstown dolomite of Cumberland Valley. 


Hellam Conglomerate 


The Hellam conglomerate forms the base of the Cambrian and is 
exposed in this area north of the pre-Cambrian rocks along the north- 


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ern flank of the Welsh Mountain ridge. The rock is a granular 
quartzite and pebbly conglomerate with clear blue quartz grains 
and pink feldspar fragments, and interbedded with thin sericitic 
quartzite. The thickness of the Hellam conglomerate on Welsh Moun- 
tain has been estimated at 150 feet. 


Chickies Quartzite. 


The Chickies quartzite overlies the Hellam conglomerate basal 
member and because of its resistance to erosion forms the summit of 
Welsh Mountain. It occurs also in two small areas north and south 
of the main body of quartzite. It is thick-bedded, light colored, 
vitreous quartzite in which the quartz grains are clear white or blue. 
The upper part of the quartzite is thin bedded and disintegrates 
into a fine, white, siliceous clay which is extensively quarried east 
of this area. The formation is about 400 feet thick and it contains 
Scolithus tubes. These tubes are casts of worm borings in the ori- 
ginal deposit, which have been filled with sand and hardened. They 
are extending at right angles to the bedding. Cross sections of these 
tubes when seen on weathered surfaces of the bedding stand out as 
little round knobs. 


Harpers Phyllite. 


The Harpers phyllite occurs in three areas on the northern and 
western flanks of Welsh Mountain where it overlies the Chickies 
quartzite. It occurs also in the hill north of Geist in the western part 
of the area. It is a grayish-green quartzose phyllite and slate with 
some biotite. Its thickness is estimated at 1,000 feet. 


Antietam Quartzite and Quartz Schist. 


The Harpers phyllite grades upward into the Antietam quartzite 
which forms the top member of the Lower Cambrian arenaceous 
series. The Antietam is exposed in two long, low ridges extending 
west from Welsh Mountain. Laurel Hill is in the northern area and 
the southern extends from south of Red Well School to Leacock 
Church. The Antietam quartzite underlies a round hill east of Green 
Bank School and forms a narrow band north of Geist and south of 
Mechanicsburg. It also forms a hill south of Ledger, north of Vin- 
tage, and three small hills 2 miles east of Vintage. The Antietam 
quartzite is a light-gray, biotite quartzite with calcareous, vitreous 
quartzite beds at the top. The calcareous beds weather to a dark- 
red, ferruginous soil containing fragments of porous, rusty banded 
white quartzite. These fragments show on the bedding surface iron- 
covered molds of Obolella and trilobite fragments. This red soil band 
with characteristic quartzite fragments is an excellant horizon marker 
for the top of the arenaceous Lower Cambrian series. In many places 


ats 


where the iron content from these beds has been concentrated, chiefly 
along fault zones, the formation has been extensively mined for limo- 
nite ore. A small opening for limonite occurs at the top of the An- 
tietam east of Geist. 

In the area south of Ledger the Antietam and underlying Harpers 
formation have been altered to a quartzose biotite-albite schist but 
even in the altered rock the upper ferruginous beds are still re- 
cognizable. The thickness of the Antietam in this area is about 150 
feet. 

Vintage Dolomite. 

The calcareous quartzite of the Antietam grades upward through 
a white micaceous dolomite into the overlying. Vintage dolomite, 
which forms the base of the Paleozoic limestones. The Vintage dolo- 
mite occurs in six areas in the New Holland quadrangle. In places it 
occupies valleys between ridges of Antietam quartzite and of the 
overlying Kinzers formation. The Vintage dolomite forms a deep 
dark-red soil; outcrops are rare. It occurs near Vintage in the 
southeastern part of the quadrangle, and in narrow areas south of 
Ledger and Salisbury, on the flanks of Hollow School and Laurel 
Hill ridges and south of Geist. 

The Vintage dolomite is at the base, cream-white, impure dolomite 
containing white mica on the bedding planes. It is overlain by 
heavy-bedded gray dolomite which weathers to a whitish chalky 
surface, and a knotty dark-blue dolomite with argillaceous beds and 
partings. Some of the beds are sparkling gray to blue, mottled with 
siliceous and calcareous blebs that stand out in relief on weathered 
surfaces. The best exposures of the Vintage dolomite occur in the 
cuts of the Pennsylvania Railroad west of Vintage whence the form- 
ation was named. 

Its thickness near Vintage is estimated at 600 feet. It has not 
yielded fossils in this area but contains fossils, chiefly trilobites and 
brachiopods, in western Lancaster and York counties. The lower 
Cambrian age of these fossils was pointed out by Walcott’ in 1896, 
after a reconnaissance of the area south and west of the New Hol- 
land quadrangle. 


Kinzers Formation 


The Kinzers formation overlies the Vintage dolomite and is ex- 
posed in the southern part of the New Holland quadrangle, where 
it forms narrow ridges separating the valleys underlain by Vintage 
dolomite from the valley areas of Ledger dolomite. The most con- 
spicious ridges extend northeast of Weavertown, south of Ledger, 
and from Leaman Place to Buyerstown and eastward. The Kinzers 
formation occurs also in small anticlinal hills surrounded by Ledger 


tWalceott, C. D., Cambrian rocks of Pennsylvania: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 134, p. 19, 1896 


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dolomite. The exposures from which it was named are in the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad cuts between Vintage and Kinzers, partly within 
and partly south of the New Holland area. 

At the base of the Kinzers formation, overlying Vintage dolomite, 
there are thin beds of impure dolomite that weather to an earthy 
tripoli and contain at many localities remains of Salterella, brachio- 
pods and trilobites. Hackly blue shale overlies the dolomite and is 
followed by dark-banded argillaceous dolomite and beds which are 
a mixture of nodular white marble and blue dolomite. 

In the Lancaster area to the west the Kinzers formation is largely 
a blue shale carrying abundant trilobites, which are chiefly Olenellus. 
The Kinzers formation is well developed in the southern part of 
the New Holland area, where it is about 130 feet thick, but it thins 
rapidly northeastward and has not been identified north of Laurel 
Hill or in the Honeybrook quadrangle to the east. 


Ledger Dolomite. 


The Ledger dolomite is the upper member of the Lower Cambrian 
calcareous series and takes its name from Ledger in the southeast- 
ern part of this area. It occupies wide valleys in the southern half 
of the quadrangle, south of Goodville, New Holland, and Mechanics- 
burg. It is granular, sparkling, gray to white dolomite, generally 
thick bedded with few bedding planes. Its upper part is massive, 
glistening, dark-blue dolomite, sometimes mottled. It weathers to 
a dark, rough surface, and forms a deep-red, granular, clay soil which 
contains rough ferruginous chert derived from impure layers. 

Its thickness has been estimated at 1,000 feet. No fossils have 
been found in it in this area and it is placed in the Lower Cambrian 
because of the presence of a lower Cambrian brachiopod, Nasusieé 
festinata Billings, found in it by Stose and Jonas in the Hanover 
Valley. 

MIDDLE CAMBRIAN SERIES. 


Elbrook Limestone. 


The Elbrook limestone occurs in two areas surrounded by the 
Ledger dolomite, extending from the western edge of the quadrangle 
nearly to Red Well School, and in an area north of the Ledger dolo- 
mite from Mechanicsburg east through Bareville, New Holland and 
Goodville. The Elbrook limestone of these areas forms low ridges 
which rise above the valley country underlain by adjoining Ledger 
dolomite and Conococheague limestone. 

The Elbrook limestone has at the base a thin cherty sandstone 
bed which is overlain by fine-grained, thin-bedded, dove, gray or blue 
raagnesian limestone with some argillaceous layers. It contains 
also beds of cream-colored marble with sericitic partings. The El- 


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brook weathers to a buff, sandy soil much lighter in color than the 
red clay derived from the Ledger dolomite. The exposures of Elbrook 
limestone are poor and no continuous section was obtained. Its 
thickness therefore can only be estimated; 500 feet is assumed. No 
fossils have been found in the Elbrook limestone in this area but it 
resembles the Elbrook limestone of Cumberland County, and is cor- 
related with it. The Waynesboro formation which underlies the El- 
brook limestone in the Cumberland Valley is absent here unless it 
be imperfectly represented by the few feet of sandstone which forms 
the base of the Elbrook in the New Holland quadrangle. 


OZARKIAN SYSTEM. 
Conococheague Limestone. 


The Conococheague limestone overlies the Elbrook limestone with- 
out observable unconformity. It occurs in a small area surrounded 
by the Elbrook limestone on the western edge of the quadrangle 
south of Hunsecker, and in a band 2 to 3 miles wide which extends 
across the central part of the quadrangle. Another area lies north 
of the Ephrata-Akron hills and passes northward under Beekman- 
town limestone as does the central area. The Conococheague lime- 
stone is made up of a series of impure thick-bedded, glistening, dark- 
blue limestones and dolomites, black chert bands, and marbles. The 
dolomite beds weather rough and knotty and the argillaceous lime- 
stones weather to a mud rock in which siliceous bands stand out 
in a network. A banded sandstone and chert occurs at the base of 
the formation and gives rise to residual fragments in the soil at this 
horizon. The formation contains thick-bedded, light-gray marbles 
derived from cryptozoon reefs. These beds are well exposed near 
Lindengrove and Crossroads School. The cryptozoon forms are large 
concentrically laminated masses in reeflike aggregations thought 
to be formed by calcareous algae. These reefs are about 10 feet 
thick and are separated by dark-blue, banded dolomite and _ silic- 
eous oolitic layers. The formation contains also thin-bedded, wavy 
limestones of related origin. 

This limestone is called the Conococheague because it is litho- 
logically like the Conococheague limestone of Cumberland Valley and 
because it contains also the cryptozoon reefs typical of the Conoco- 
heague in Cumberland Valley and in Maryland. Its thickness in 
the New Holland area is estimated at 1,000 feet. 


ORDOVICIAN SYSTEM. 
Beekmantown Limestone. 


The Beekmantown limestone overlies the Conococheague and 
occurs in three main areas,—one south of Spring Grove, another 


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larger one southwest from Hahnstown to Brownstown and _ the 
third, southwest of Denver. It is the youngest of the Paleozoic 
limestone series of the region and is overlain by Ordovician Co- 
calico shale. 

In the main, the formation is a finely laminated, light-blue, pure 
limestone with dark-blue magnesian beds much broken and the 
cracks recemented by white calcite. It also contains beds of white 
marble. The blue limestone, which is a lighter blue than the Cono- 
cocheague limestone, weathers to a pale blue to gray surface which 
shows the finely laminated character of the rock. The limestone 
underlies a country of little relief, produces deep soil, and has few 
natural outcrops. Its thickness in the New Holland quadrangle is 
estimated at 2,000 feet. The formation contains poorly preserved 
gastropod remains, among which Ophileta and Turrifoma can be 
identitied, as well as fragments of crinoids. These fossils establish 
the Canadian age of the formation. 


Cocalico Shale. 

The Cocalico shale overlies the Beekmantown limestone and oc- 
curs in small areas in the northern half of the New Holland quad- 
rangle. It forms hills west and south of Akron, and southwest of 
Ephrata, narrow ridges near Fairmount and Martindale and from 
Denver westward to the edge of the quadrangle. 


The shale is a blue, green, or purple, thin, fissile shale, containing 
beds of green arkosic sandstone with glassy quartz grains. These 
sandstone beds are helpful in determining bedding in the adjoining 
shale, in which cleavage is well developed. The shale discolors on 
weathering and forms abundant, fine, buff slivers in a thin soil. 
Outcrops of fresh rock are rare. At the base there is a dark-blue, 
crinoidal limestone which is well exposed west of Brownstown on 
Cocalico Creek. The shale was hnamed* from this locality where it 
and the basal crinoidal limestone bed are well exposed overlying the 
Beekmantown limestone. 


The shale contains poorly preserved graptolites at a few places 
where cleavage has not obliterated them. These graptolites are evi- 
dence of the Chazyan age of the shale. The upper boundary of the 
shale is an erosion surface, and any thickness of the Cocalico is but an 
estimate. 

Conestoga Limestone 


In the southern part of the area there is another formation of 
Ordovician age, the Conestoga limestone. It outcrops as far north 
as Smoketown and extends southeastward to Leaman Place. It has 
a. wide distribution southeast and southwest of this area. 


.%Stose, G. W., and Jonas, A. I., Lower Paleozoic section of southeastern Pennsylvania: Wash.) 
AChd. sSCiowed OUn. Vol, d25sn0y- td, pae64. 11922. 


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The Conestoga limestone is made up of coarse limestone conglo- 
merates or breccias of blue limestone and white marble in a dark 
caleareous or argillaceous matrix, thin-bedded, dark-blue,. argil- 
laceous limestone, thick-bedded blue limestone and dark graphitic 
slate. The limestone conglomerates occur for the most part at or 
near the base of the formation in beds up to 10 feet thick, inter- 
bedded with slaty blue limestone. North of Leaman Place the Con- 
estoga lies on Ledger dolomite, east of it on the Kinzers formation 
and south of it on Vintage dolomite. The basal conglomerate beds 
of the Conestoga are well exposed in the Bellmont quarries only 
half a mile south of Vintage. This overlap has been described in 
detail by Stose and Jonas.” The overlapping relation of the Con- 
estoga limestone to the underlying formations had been observed be- 
fore fossils were found in it. It was known to be younger than the 
Lower Cambrian Ledger dolomite on which it rests uneonformably. 
As has been seen, the Ledger dolomite in this area is overlain by the 
Klbrook, Conococheague, and Beekmantown limestones without a 
structural break in the sequence. 


The Conestoga does not resemble these formations lithologically 
and it was considered as probably post-Beekmantown in age. In 
1922 fossils were collected in the Conestoga limestone east of York"? 
and the one determinable species, Strophomena stosei, is regarded 
by Bassler as probably Chazy. The Cocalico shale of the north and 
the Conestoga limestone of the south, therefore, are approximately 
of the same age. The Conestoga limestone was deposited in the 
scuth on the bevelled edges of older Cambrian formations after an 
erosion period which followed the Beekmantown. The limestone 
conglomerates were formed from waste of the eroded underlying 
formations. The more argillaceous material which was being de- 
posited at the same time in the northern part of the quadrangle 
formed the Cocalico shale. 


The Conestoga limestone and Cocalico shale are the youngest 
Paleozoic rocks preserved in this area. The region was profoundly 
folded and eroded before the deposition of the Triassic sediments 
which unconformably overlie the Paleozoic rocks. 


TRIASSIC SYSTEM. 


In the northern part of the New Holland quadrangle Paleozoic 
rocks are overlain unconformably by Triassic sandstones, conglo- 
merates, and shales. These rocks belong to a belt of Triassic rocks 
which enters Pennsylvania from New Jersey, and, crossing Pennsyl- 


*Stose, G. W. and Jonas, A. I., Ordovician overlap in the Piedmont province of Pennsylvania 
and Maryland: Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., vol. 34, pp. 510-519, 1923. 


toStose, GW and, Jonas, Ax Ls) op cit 


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vania from east to southwest, extends southward into Maryland 
and Virginia. This belt of rocks, which has a maximum width of 
25-30 miles at the Delaware River, is only 3 miles wide between 
Denver and South Mountain, Lebanon County, to the north of the 
New Holland quadrangle. North of Terre Hill the Triassic rocks 
are 10 miles wide, 7 miles of which le in the New Holland area. 
West of Reamstown and Hahnstown a narrow belt extends to Eph- 
rata and Akron. It is separated from the narrow Triassic band west 
of Denver on the northern edge of the quadrangle by 5 miles of 
Paleozoic rocks. South of Terre Hill the Triassic rests on Conococh- 
eague and Beekmantown limestone and Cocalico shale; in the rest 
of the area it overlies Beekmantown limestone and Cocalico shale, 
which was not separated from the Triassic rocks by the Second 
Pennsylvania Geological Survey.1t The Triassic sediments in this 
quadrangle are divided into three formations. The basal member, 
called the lower arkosic sandstone and conglomerate member, ex- 
tends from Akron eastward through Terre Hl] to the eastern edge 
of the quadrangle. It is repeated by faulting in the northern part 
of the quadrangle in a narrow band west of Adamstown. The 
southern edge of these Triassic sediments is the resultant of erosion 
of the Triassic rocks unconformably overlying older Paleozoic rocks 
and dipping northwestward 10° to 45°. The lower member may be 
divided into an arkosic red sandstone with scattered pebbles, and an 
overlying quartz conglomerate which is a ridge maker. It forms 
the hill east of Ephrata 800 feet high, called Ephrata Mountain, and 
the ridges north of Terre Hill, as well as a connecting ridge running 
from Ephrata Mountain to the Terre Hill area. This conglomerate 
underlies the ridge which extends west from Adamstown to Denver. 

The basal beds are a fine arkosic brown sandstone with glassy 
quartz pebbles and pink kaolinized feldspar fragments. The pebbly 
sandstone is interbedded with brown, soft, micaceous sandstone also 
arkosic which breaks to slivers and a gray arkosic sandstone which 
weathers to yellow sand. South of Terre Hill thin carbonaceous 
scams overlie the arkosic sandstone near the base of the formation. 
These seams, not more than one-sixteenth of an inch thick, contain 
plant remains too imperfect for identification. 

The harder ridge-making conglomerate member is thick-bedded 
and contains large quartz pebbles. It weathers to boulders up to 
six feet square. It is interbedded with arkosic sandstone and vitreous 
white sandstone. 

The second and middle member of the Triassic lies north of Muddy 
Creek and Red Run and extends northward to Adamstown. It also 
forms a small area northwest of Adamstown Hill. It is correlated 


17Map of Lancaster County, Penna. Second Geol. Survey, Rept. CC 


il 


with the Gettysburg shale of southern Pennsylvania and is composed 
of soft, red, shaly sandstones with hard, gray, pebbly sandstone beds, 
and contains beds of thick red sandstone with scattered pebbles of 
different size. It is made up of less shale and more sandstone than 
in the type area. 


This member is overlain by a coarse conglomerate interbedded 
with red sandstone, which appears only in the extreme northeast 
corner of the quadrangle. This conglomerate is gray and contains 
cobbles 6 to 10 inches in diameter which form a coarse gravel wash 
over most of the surface underlain by the conglomerate. From a 
study of the geologic map it is evident that the irregular distribu- 
tion and repetition of members of the Triassic is caused by faulting, 
which has broken and moved these rocks. This faulting will be dis- 
cussed later. 


Faulting which these rocks have sutfered makes it difficult to get. 
a complete section or to measure the thickness of the members. South 
of Terre Hill the basal arkosic sandstone is thin but its average 
thickness is estimated at 500 feet. It is overlain by 1,000 feet of 
conglomerate, giving a total thickness of 1500+ feet for the lower 
sandstone and conglomerate member. The thickness of the Gettys- 
burg shale is about 1,000 feet. No estimate is warranted for the 
thickness of the upper conglomerate member because of lack of data. 


Diabase 


The Triassic rocks are penetrated by intrusive diabase, the largest 
area of which is exposed in the northeastern part of the quadrangle. 
The outcrop extends along the Berks-Lancaster county line for 
several miles and from Adamstown to Chestnut School. The diabase 
is intrusive in the Gettysburg shale, which it has baked and harden- 
ed for an eighth of a mile at the contact. Baking turned the red 
color of the sediments to gray blue. A small area of diabase north- 
west of Terre Hill shows also a rim of baked sediments. Along the 
narrower diabase dike which rung south from Goodville eight miles, 
no baking of the country rock is apparent. This dike is paralleled 
by a short dike south of Ledger. <A diabase dike occurs north of 
Schoeneck, also south and southwest of that hamlet. Two narrow 
dikes have been mapped near Martindale, and one at Spring Grove. 
The country rock shows no baking in the vicinity of any of these 
small dikes. 


Because of its hardness and resistance to weathering, diabase of 
the main area gives rise to hilly country. For the most part this 
area is thickly covered with large round diabase boulders, the pre- 
sence of which makes the land unfit for cultivation. As a result it 
is usually left in forest. 


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The diabase of the main mass is a light-gray, medium to coarse 
grained erystalline rock. Where quite coarse grained it is locally 
called granite. On the edges of the main mass and in the smaller 
dikes the diabase is dense, fine-grained, and greenish black. The 
constituents of both varieties are the same, feldspar and augite 
Leing the only minerals discernible in the hand specimen. Fetdspar 
predominates in the coarse-grained rock. It is for the most part 
doubly twinned plagioclase with the composition of acid labradorite. 
Augite is the usual green-brown variety and occupies angular spaces 
between the interlocking lath-shaped feldspars. Magnetite is pre- 
sent in small amount. 

Diabase makes excellent road metal because of its hardness and 
binding qualities but no quarries are being operated in it in this 
quadrangle. There is enough diabase in stone fences half a mile 
northwest of Terre Hill to feed a crusher for several weeks. 


STRUCTURE. 


The New Holland quadrangle lies in a belt of folded rocks, the 
folds having been produced by lateral compression of sedimentary 
beds that were originally horizontal. The rocks in general strike east 
and dip in various directions. The dip is the angle at which a bed 
is inclined to the horizontal, and the strike is the course which its 
intersection with a horizontal surface would take. 


In outcrops such as are seen in roads, streams, railroad cuts, and 
quarries only the smaller folds may be seen but the larger features 
of the structure can be recognized by the manner in which the for- 
mations curve around the ends of the folds. These folds are both 
up-folds or anticlines and down-folds or synclines. The main axis 
of a fold has the same direction as the trend of the folds and may be 
horizontal or inclined. The inclination of an axis is called the pitch. 


Folds. 


In this area the anticlines bring up the older arenaceous rocks in 
the center of the larger folds and around the pitching ends of some 
of the other folds. These older rocks form long ridges that rise above 
the softer limestones of the adjoining synclines. The Ordovician 
Cocalico shale also forms hills where it is preserved in synclines. 


This folding is restricted 'to the Paleozoic and pre-Cambrian rocks 
and has not affected the Triassic rocks, which are only gently tilted 
northward. 


The essential structural features of the quadrangle are the Welsh 
Mountain anticline of the south-central part of the area, and the 
Ephrata syncline in the northern part. Close folding of the north. 
ern flank of Mine Ridge anticline, which lies south of this quad- 


AM, 


rangle, occurs in the southern part of the area and also in part of the 
syncline which lies between the Welsh Mountain and Mine Ridge 
anticlines. 

Welsh Mount in anticline—Welsh Mountain anticline is the west- 
ern part of a larger anticlinorium which terminates in this area in 
two narrow plunging folds of Laurel Hill and Hollow School hill. 
These long slender folds extend a little south of west beyond the 
center of the area where the harder Lower Cambrian rocks, Harpers 
and Antietam schists, plunge southwestward under the limestones. 
These arenaceous Lower Cambrian rocks are brought up again in an 
anticline west of Mechanicsburg, which is offset a little from the 
northern fold of Welsh Mountain. The Antietam quartz schist is 
brought up in a series of small anticlinal folds south of Welsh 
Mountain. 

Ephrata syncline—The main syncline of the area extends through 
Ephrata and Akron and is occupied by Cocalico shale and remnants 
of overlying Triassic sandstones with Beekmantown and Cambrian 
limestones on the flanks. The Triassic rocks west of Denver lie on the 
south limb of a synclinal fold of Cocalico shale, north of the Ephrata 
syncline. 

Minor folds —South of the Ephrata syncline the succession of rock 
formations may be followed downward across the gently-folded lime- 
stone of the Brownstown Valley to the more steeply-dipping rocks on 
the flank of Welsh Mountain. Between the two anticlinal forks of 
Welsh Mountain fold the Conococheague limestone is preserved in a 
syncline lying west of Heller Church. 

The Conestoga limestone of the southwestern part of the area is 
closely folded in a syncline which extends westward south of Lan- 
caster. 


Faults. 


The folded rocks are much broken by normal strike faults which 
trend south of west to southwest more or less parallel to the trend 
of the folds, and also by cross faults which trend northwest, and 
which are especially numerous in the area of the Welsh Mountain 
anticline and Ephrata syncline. These cross faults and strike faults 
break the earth’s crust into small blocks. ; 

The most important fault of the area lies south of Welsh Moun- 
tain and brings pre-Cambrian rocks in contact with the Ledger dolo- 
mite. The throw or displacement is at least 3,500 feet. This fault 
crosses the quadrangle, diminishing in throw westward. It is 
paralleled on the south by a fault south of Ledger and Gordonville 
with the downthrow also on the south side. 

The Hollow School anticlinal spur is limited on the south by the 
Welsh Mountain fault and is broken on the north by a nearly parallel 


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fault which drops down the rocks on the north side. Laurel Will 
anticline is likewise bounded by faults. These structures have been 
recently described by Stose as anticlinal horsts.1* A horst is a tract 
of the earth’s crust separated by faults from, and relatively elevated 
above, the surrounding tracts. 

The anticlines which were formed by compressive forces during 
the Paleozoic or at its close, were later uplifted by Triassic block 
faulting and tilted northward and have persisted as rising areas. 
The anticlinal faulted block west of Mechanicsburg lying between 
valley limestones may be similarly explained. Block faulting, which 
in the Welsh Mountain anticlines has produced anticlinal horsts, 
has in reversed manner produced a graben*® or sunken fault block 
in the Ephrata syncline. This is a Paleozoic fold in which the young- 
est Paleozoic rocks of the quadrangle are preserved, together with a 
band of Triassic sandstone three miles long. The area in general 
was faulted, the blocks were tilted northward, and the syncline be- 
came a graben. It is cut from northwest to southeast by a cross 
fault which has uplifted the western block, so that erosion has left 
only a small area of the Triassic rocks lying on Cocalico shale. 
Kast of the fault there is a wide area underlain by Triassic rocks. 

The block faulting of the region is considered to be of Triassic 
age because Triassic rocks are involved in the faulting in the Eph- 
rata syncline. The fault south of Welsh Mountain also has been 
traced into Triassic rocks 20 miles east near Phoenixville. Faulting 
of the same type which occurs throughout the quadrangle is con- 
sidered to be of Triassic age even when confined to Paleozoic rocks 
whose Triassic cover has been removed. 

The movement along these faults was largely vertical and was 
accompanied by brecciation or shattering of the rocks. Quartz breccia 
occurs along the fault of South Mountain and south of Hunsecker 
and limestone breccia along cross faults near Martindale and THinkle- 
town. : 

MINERAL RESOURCES. 
Introduction. 


The mineral resources of the New Holland quadrangle are lime. 
stone, sand, and clay. Limestone is of chief importance because of 
its distribution, occupying as it does about three-fourths of the area. 
The shale, sandstone, and quartzite from which clay and sand are 
obtained occupy one-fourth of the area. A large mass of diabase 
in the northeastern part of the area is a potential source of stone 
for building blocks and road metal but no quarries are operating 
in it at present. 








12Stose, G. W., 
1924, pp. 472-73. 


18Stose, G. W., op. cit., pp. 469-71. 


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Limestone. 


The chemical composition of pure limestone is calcium carbon. 
ate, but few limestones are pure. Besides calcium carbonate, lime- 
stone also commonly contains magnesia, silica, iron, and alumina. 
Dolomite is lime carbonate with over 21 per cent of magnesium 
carbonate. Slaty limestone contains considerable argillaceous mat- 
ter. Limestone ranges in color from black to white, but is usually 
blue or dove gray, depending on crystallinity and composition. Some 
are soft others are compact and hard. The limestones of the New 
Holland area are crystalline limestone and dolomites, for the most 
part hard and dense. The older limestones, Vintage and Ledger of 
Lower Cambrian age, are largely dolomite. The Conococheague and 
Beekmantown formations contain some magnesian limestone but are 
for the most part crystalline limestone, as the Elbrook limestone. 
The limestones of the Beekmantown are those most widely quarried 
in this quadrangle. 

Analyses. Of the analyses in the following table, Nos. 1-5 are 
from a report on the Limestones of Pennsylvania by B. L. Miller™ 
and Nos. 6-10 were kindly furnished by I. C. Eckel of Washington, 
DzC. 


Analyses of limestone in New Holland quadrangle. 


















































1 sv coll aera oes nd tga aa 5 6 7 | 8 9 Ww 
wees one 51.03 | 97.25 | 65.95 | 81.48 es 67.08 | a i By 2 yh a Rae sen oe 
ae | = i = = 
MgCOs __-.- 37.62 | 1.49] 3.91 | Pr eite OCHO TESORO. oT Dba ti tee ks im ed) Ra ae ; 
Bile secs cee retake 0. 6 ier | 8.68 ao oe | 0.85 | 18.80 | 18.02 |-__---- 3.68 ee 
Ais shee ee te eeraLeeet Se Oe ae an : ae 2.13 es SEALS 0 = 1 . 
3.74 | 0.58 | 6.45 | 3.20] 0.28] 1.00 | 0.46 |__-___. ha ee je S| ae Ne 
FesOa. 225 jc SE NOPE BRN Conte Be a A 0.63 | 0.66 |______- 0.26 | 0.33 
ae Sk ida Rate ghee eae a dha GaN ae Ae Ta ess eas 44.59 | 35.42 | 42 a 51 ie an 
ae POSS TEs See tee tee eee Ue eS St Re ee | 2.14 | 9.90] 9.18] 1 a 2 ws 
on SLi . ae Shs poe eee ee yh ; Sabet 36.46 | vA prea oe hal 
































1. Outerop, south of Ephrata road, 1% miles FB. of Landis Valley and about % 
mile west of the New Holland quadrangle near Oregon. Conococheague lime= 
stone. 

Outcrop on Weidler farm near right bank of Coealico Creek, 1 mile east of 
Oregon. Beekmantown limestone. 


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14Miller, B. L., Limestones of Pennsylvania: Penna. Top. & Geol. Survey, Bull. M7, p. 91, 19205. 


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Limestone from farm of Alvin Wenger, 1 mile west of Brownstown. It was 
planned to use No. 3c for the manufacture of Portland cement. Beekman- 
town limestone. 

4. Outcrop on Minnich farm near abandoned railroad cut, 1 mile north of 


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Brownstown. Beekmantown limestone, 

5. Quarry near left bank of Conestoga Creek 1 mile northwest of Farmersv'lle. 
Beekmantown limestone. 

6. Old quarry east of Oregon on highway east of creek. Was used for road 
metal. Conococheague limestone, 


7. Stock pile from large road metal quarry at Brownstown on north branch of 
Conestoga Creek. Beekmantown limestone. 
8. Center Square, at dividing line between Conococheague and DBeekmantown 


limestones. Field sample. 

9. Quarry on south side of Conestoga Creek 1 mile north of Farmersville. Beek- 
mantown limestone. 

10. Small quarry 1 mile south of Fairmount, near Shaeffer School. Sample from 
face of quarry. Beekmantown limestone. 


The following analyses from the report of Richard K. Meade, dated April 17, 
1906, on the property of the Conestoga Portland Cement Company, show the 
variation in composition of the limestone in successive beds, as determined by 
sample taken every three feet in drill holes at the junction of Conestoga and Cocalico 
creeks. The drilling was begun in Beekmantown, limestone near the boundary with 
the underlying Conococheague limestone, into which the drilling probably extended. 



























































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BOE AD Se aL 1.3 0.44 70 : 18.46 | 4.60 | 72.60 | 4.28 | 15.94 | 5.12 | 75.35 3.54 
AQTIIG aeaaess 5 1.30 | 0.30 | 97.70 nae 32.18 | 12.96 | 49.41 | 4.1% | 9.84 | 3.26 | 82.70 are 
ADA S ee ee 1.44 | 0.38 | 97.34 | 1.21 | 33.00 | 12.02 | 49.78 | 3.18 | 10.06 | 5.12 | 83.05 8.44 
48-51  ._____|. 1.82 | 0.42 | 97.65 | 1.12 | 34.29 | 13.68 | 46.72 | 3.02 | 12.22 | 4.00 | 80.47 3.12 
ped eee | 1.42] 0.36 | 97.65 | 1.16 | 39.02 | 15.16 | 39.88 | 3.299 | 11.52 | 3.76 | 81.37 3.18 
54-57 __-___| 1.36 | 0.48 | 97.65 | 1.18 | 30.62 | 12.44 | 51.93 | 2.50 | 4,54 | 1.48 | 92.¢¢8 2.16 
EGO? 2 oe 1.44 | 0.40 | 97.7C | 1.10 | 38.56 | 13.00 | 44.85 | 1.95 | 4.50] 1.86 | 91.85 2.54 
COM GG eee 0.62 | 018 | 98.43 | 1.01 | 86.66 | 13.06 | 45.892 | 2.16) 7.42 | 2.48 | 87.19 2.98 
6366. tase 0.48 | 0.20 | £2.61 | 0.96 | 39.02 | 14.0€ | 40.9% | 2.75 | 9.12 | 3.23 | 83.69 2.85 
G62 GO hae 1.10 | 0.32 | 97.88 | 1.02 | 39.98 |.14.56 | 37.20 | 3.60 | 8.38 | 7.62 | 86.47 2.62 
692. 2a 1.60 | 0.54 | 94.70)| 1.32 | 42.16 | 18.98 | 31.80 | 3.88] 9.64] 38.22 | 82.34 3.06 
(PE ue 4.38 | 0.66 | 92.62 | &.72 | 47.20 | 13.82 | 26.06 | 4.98 | 18.63 | 4.32 | 77.50 3.43 
51S en 3.42 | 0.66 | 93.52 | 2.61 | 94.62 | 12.18 | 54.08] 4.98 | 11.64 | 3.88 | 79.29 3.12 
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BS ie eee 5.62 | 3.02 | 88.74] 2.84 | 37.62 | 12.22 | 49.95 | 4.18 | 5,42 | 1.60 | 90.60 2.54 
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Uses of limestone——Limestone is extensively employed for build- 
ing stone, crushed stone for road metal and concrete and railroad 
ballast, ime and cement, and in its pure form for metallurgical pur- 
poses. The limestones of this area are largely quarried for crushed 
stone to be used as road metal, ballast, and for concrete work. The 
rock is crushed at the quarries and transported by auto truck as 
well as by railroad. In some quarries the rock is pulverized to 
ground limestone and used as a substitute for burnt lime for “sweet- 
ening” of souls. At present lime is not burned in the New Holland 
area. Old stone kilns are still standing near many quarries and 
were formerly used to supply a neighborhood demand. They oper- 
ated with great waste of fuel and their use has ceased with rise in 
price of fuel and labor and greater availability of the commercial 
agricultural lime. The greatest part of the crushed limestone is used 
for road metal, with and without a cement or bituminous binder, 
and for electric railway ballast. It has a fair cementing power but 
only a moderate resistance to wear, hence when used without a 
binder is satisfactory only for secondary roads where automobile 
travel is not heavy. When used with cementor tar binder the lower 
coefficient of wear as compared with trap and harder road metals 
is offset by greater cheapness of quarrying and crushing of the softer 
limestone. Because of the above fact and availability of the supply, 
limestone has been used for the excellent State highways which 
cross the New Holland quadrangle. These include the Lincoln High- 
way which passes through Paradise and Vintage, the Conestoga 
turnpike which crosses the central part of the area, the intersect- 
ing Harrisburg-Downingtown Highway which passes southeast 
through Ephrata, and the northward connecting road between the 
Lincoln Highway at Lancaster and the Harrisburg-Downingtown 
road at Ephrata. This connecting road extends northeast of Ephrata 
to Adamstown and thence to Reading. 

The main highways of this area are constructed for the most part 
with a bituminous concrete surface laid upon a prepared base. This 
base is usually coarse broken stone bound with asphalt. Concrete 
foundations or concrete-surface roads are not used in this section, 
probably because of the greater initial cost, although their cheaper 
maintenance and length of life make them superior to any other 
type of base and road pavement. Secondary roads are paved with 
water-bound macadam or with bituminous macadam surface com- 
posed of broken and finely crushed stone with a bituminous binder 
poured on. 

There is a growing demand for ground limestone and fine crushed 
limestone for use in making concrete foundations of houses and 
other buildings. The finely crushed stone is mixed with cement to 
make concrete which is poured into forms and makes a monolithic 


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wall. This form of foundation is cheaper than stone or cement 
blocks. Another increasing use of ground limestone is for making 
concrete building blocks, pipes, and other concrete products. Both 
the New Holland Concrete Works and the Kurtz Bros. Concrete 
Products Company of Ephrata are large manufacturers of these pro- 
ducts. The considerable building activity in Lancaster and its vi- 
cinity and in the New Holland area near the larger towns is absorb- 
ing the local production of concrete blocks and of crushed stone 
for concrete work and new quarries will be opened to supply these 
needs. 


The Conestoga Portland Cement Company was formed about 1906 
to make Portland cement from limestone at the junction of Conestoga 
and Cocalico creeks near Brownstown. Under the direction of R. K. 
Meade (then of Nazareth, Pa., now Baltimore, Md.) three drilling 
machines tested the ground for several months. About 50 holes 
were drilled averaging 100 feet deep. Samples were taken in the 
drill holes every three feet to determine the quality of the rock. 
Only the high grade limestone was to be used, mixed with shale from 
a locality about two-thirds of a mile northeast. The quality of the 
material was reported to be favorable. Because a proposed railroad 
was not built and financial backing was insufficient, the plant was 
not built. 


Limestone quarries now active-—The location of the active and 
inactive limestone quarries in the New Holland quadrangle is shown 
on the geologic map which accompanies this report. The older quar- 
ries now abandoned or only occasionally worked are indicated on 
the map by a prospect symbol. They were used for obtaining build- 
ing stone, lime for burning, and crushed stone. The active quarries, 
marked on the map by crossed hammers, will be described in numer- 
ical order. 


The largest quarry of the area is the Harry Millard (No. 1) 
quarry northeast of Denver. It is cut 400 feet eastward into the 
hill, is 100 feet wide with an 80-foot back face capped by 20 feet 
of Triassic sandstone (Plate III B). The north wall exposes light 
gray dolomite which dips N. 60°. At the east end the beds dip 
only 25° and rest on black slaty limestone which is an infold of the 
base of the Cocalico shale. The quarry is equipped with cable tram, 
two crushers (Champion Nos. 4 and 5), screens, and bins, and is 
operated by electric power. Stripping and loading are done by steam 
shovel: -Churn drill ‘holes 6 inches in diameter and 80 feet deep are 
sunk for blasting. The product is road metal. 


PLATE II! 





A. Conestoga Creek near Martinsdale. 
Burkholder crushed limestone bin in foreground. 





B. Millard limestone quarry, Denver. 


OF BLLInGis L1Bha® 








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PLATE IV 





A. Kurtz Bros. limestone quarry, Ephrata. 





B. Shreiner limestone quarry, Brownstown. 


Ze 


The R. M. Hertzog quarry (No. 2) is one mile southeast of Denver 
and north of Stony Run. It is 100 feet in diameter with a 20-foot 
face in blue dolomitic limestone. Little stripping is required. The 
quarry, which produces broken stone, is equipped with cable tram 
from quarry to the plant, which consists of a Champion No, 4/4 
crusher, a smaller New Holland jaw crusher, screens, elevator, and 
bins. The machinery is driven by electric power. Drilling is done 
with a jackhammer operated by compressed air. 


West Cocalico Township operates two quarries (Nos. 3 and 4) for 
road material as needed. These quarries lie one mile south of Gock- 
ley and two miles south of Schoeneck respectively. The rock is thin 
blue limestone and blue dolomite. 


The S. B. Keller quarry (No. 5) les just south of the Harrisburg- 
Ephrata highway near Clay School. It has a crusher, elevator, 
screen, and bins and operates in. thin-bedded blue limestone for 
crushed stone. 


Clay Township operates a small quarry (No. 6) on Middle Creek 
for crushed stone to be used as road material. A portable crusher 
is used. : | 

Just west of Ephrata on the bank of Cocalico Creek is the H. E. 
Kurtz quarry (No. 7) operated for the Kurtz Bros. Concrete Pro- 
duct Company, whose plant is on the Philadelphia and Reading 
Railroad at its intersection with the Lancaster-Ephrata State road 
one-eighth of a mile south of the quarry. The quarry, which has a 
40-foot face and is 200 feet in diameter, is in blue, thick-bedded 
dolomite (Plate IV A). The primary Champion crusher is driven 
by steam engine and the secondary crusher, a Champion combined 
jaw and rolls, is driven by electric motor. The track layout in the 
quarry is radiating. The crushed stone is used in the nearby plant 
which is a large producer of concrete building blocks, conduits, and 
other products. 


J.C. Showalter operated a quarry (No. 10) on the Downingtown 
road half a mile west of Conestoga Creek. It is about 100 feet long, 
50 wide, and 20 deep. Practically no stripping is required. A 
Champion No. 4 crusher and bins are the only equipment at the 
quarry during idle periods. The land is owned by Mary Weaver. 
The product is crushed stone. 


Henry Martin operates a quarry (No. 11) between Hinkletown 
and Hahnstown. The rock is thin, dark-blue limestone and is quar- 
ried for road material for Ephrata township. Two small idle quar- 
ries le to the east of this quarry. 


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A quarry (No. 12) operated by David Burkholder, is half a mile 
west of Martindale on the north bank of Conestoga Creek. The 
rock is a straight-bedded, thinly laminated, blue limestone, which 
is crushed for road material. The quarry on the south side of the 
road has been discontinued and another opened on the north side. 
The new quarry is 50 by 30 feet, and 15 feet deep. Electric power 
drives a Champion No. 4% crusher, New Holland rolls, and screen. 
Three sizes of crushed stone are stored in bins. This straight-bed- 
ded limestone has been used considerably for houses and fences in 
that vicinity. 


The quarry of Wiliam R. Good (No. 138) is just south of the 
Harrisburg-Downingtown road along a small tributary to Conestoga 
Creek near the east end of Hinkletown. The rock is hard blue dolo- 
mite crossed by a fault zone, in which the shattered limestone is 
stained red by infiltrations from the Triassic rocks. The equipment 
consists of a tram, cable, crusher, screens, elevator, and bins, used 
for the production of crushed stone. Just half a mile along the 
strike is the Musselman quarry (No. 14) in the same kind of lime- 
stone, formerly operated by the New Holland Concrete Works. It 
is now idle and owned by W. R. Good. 


A quarry (No. 15) in the Conococheague limestone on the south 
bank of Conestoga Creek at Weaverland is on the property of Frank 
Weaver. The quarry is being operated by Ferris Martin, who is 
installing new machinery. The rock, a blue, well-bedded limestone, 
is crushed for use as road material and for ballast for the Conestoga 
Traction Company along whose line it is situated. 


A quarry (No. 16) in the Beekmantown limestone south of Terre 
Hill is operated by C. 8. Martin for crushed stone. It is equipped 
with a crusher, screen, and bins. 


The Beekmantown limestone is widely quarried both north and 
south of Ephrata. A large quarry (No. 17) at Spring Grove former- 
ly owned by the Zeimer estate and operated for crushed stone, is 
at present idle. The rock is dark blue limestone streaked with eal- 
cite and was quarried in a face 30 to 40 feet deep. 


At Blue Ball, J. C. Showalter, of Ephrata, operates a quarry (No. 
18) owned by George B. Rutt. The quarry, which has a 20-foot face 
and is 200 feet wide along the strike, is in blue to gray folded lime- 
stone and white marble. Crushed stone is produced with an Acme 
No. 4% jaw crusher and rotary screen. Four sizes of stone are pro- 
duced, mostly for road metal and concrete aggregate. 


Eli Shreiner, of Manheim, operates a quarry (No. 19) for crushed 
stone on the north side of Conestoga Creek at Brownstown. The 


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quarry is cut northward into the hill with a 50-foot face and is 250 
feet long. The rock is a dense blue limestone with siliceous beds. 
Gentle folding and some overthrusting of the strata is noticeable 
(Plate IV, B). 

Four quarries are operated in the Elbrook limestone along the 
Bareville-New Holland Ridge. The Levi Zook quarry (No. 20) is on 
the north side of the State highway at Bareville. It is about 150 
feet long, 75 feet wide, and 50 feet deep. The rock is a thin-bedded, 
blue limestone with platy partings and lenses. Electric power is 
used for running the crusher, screens, air compressor, and hoist. 
Drilling is done with a jackhammer. The quarry is equipped with a 
New Holland crusher and the crushed stone is used on State high- 
ways, in local concrete construction, and at the Bareville Concrete 
Works in making cement building blocks and conduits. South of the 
Levi Zook quarry is a small quarry (No. 21) operated by Clayton 
Groff. The equipment consists of crusher and bins, and the product 
is crushed stone. 

By the school house on the State highway one mile west of New 
Holland is the Elmer Meyers quarry (No. 22) in the same formation 
the Elbrook. It is worked occasionally for foundation stones, and 
stone from this quarry was used in the Mennonite church of New 
Holand. The rock is a well-bedded, cream-white marble occurring in 
two-foot beds and overlain by blue magnesian limestone. The quarry 
has no equipment and the slabs are broken out by hand when needed. 

The Aaron Good & Bros. quarry (No. 23) is half a mile south 
of New Holland. The rock exposed in the quarry dips 45° north- 
west. The quarry is 100 by 200 feet and 50 feet deep. The lower 
beds comprise 60 feet of sparkling, dark-blue, hackly dolomite which 
breaks readily, overlain by 30 feet of thicker bedded, light-blue dolo- 
mite, followed by 20 feet of banded, light-blue dolomite. The equip- 
ment includes an [Ebersole crusher, screens and large bins, an air 
compressor and jackhammer drill. Electric power is used for all 
purposes. The coarser stone is used for road material and the pul- 
verized rock for fertilizer. 

A quarry (No. 24) in blue mottled sparkling dolomite is operated 
on the place of James W. Brubaker, two miles south of New Holland. 
It is only a small quarry, worked intermittently. The rock is 
crushed for road material for use on the Earl Township roads. 

The A. B. King quarry (No. 26) is 1% miles northwest of Inter- 
course, on the south bank of Muddy Run. The limestone is thin 
and thick bedded, mottled blue. It dips 70° north. The quarry is 
opened along the strike and stone is crushed for road material. The 
quarry is small and a portable crusher is brought when it is oper- 
ated. An adjacent quarry (No. 27) is operated by J. H. Denninger. 
The opening is about 75 by 100 feet across and 30 feet deep in dark 


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blue glistening dolomite mottled with zigzag black lines. A Champ- 
ion No. 4% crusher is driven by a steam tractor. A small roll pul- 
verizer and rotary screen complete the mechanical equipment for 
making fine ground limestone. These quarries and an idle one near- 
by are in the limestone beds of the Kinzers formation. 

In the southern part of the New Holland area there are three quar- 
ries active and recently active in the Conestoga limestone, as well 
as many old quarries no longer worked. At Fertility, on the north 
bank of Mill Creek, J. H. Denninger stripped a ledge preparatory to 
opening a new quarry (No. 28) and erected a Champion No. 4% 
crusher in 1924 on the land of Jacob Shaffer. Before April 1925 
about 75 holes had been drilled in the ledge but no blasting had been 
done. The rock is thin-bedded, blue, crystalline limestone and will 
be crushed for highway use. (See Plate VII A.). 

A quarry well worthy of mention is south of the Lincoln Highway 
at Soudersburg (No. 29). The limestone here is well bedded and 
formerly was quarried for building blocks used in houses, barns, 
fences and bridges of the vicinity. 

A mile north of Leaman Place there is an inactive quarry (No. 30) 
on the land of the Aaron Beiler family. I't was formerly worked for 
building stone and crushed stone. 

John Landis is operating a quarry (No. 31) at Leaman Place 
just west of a branch of Pequea Creek. The rock is thin-bedded, blue 
limestone with mottled marble beds 4 to 6 feet thick. The present 
quarry face is about 30 feet high in beds dipping N. 30°. The stone 
breaks readily and is of good quality. It is crushed and pulverized 
for use in concrete, for road material, and for fertilizer. The equip- 
ment consists of two crushers, the larger, an old Aultman jaw, and 
the smaller, an Ebersole crusher equipped with a dise pulverizer ; 
also screens and bins. Two 20 horse power electric motors operate 
this machinery and a new Schram compressor for the air drill. 

Several quarries have been opened in the Ledger dolomite in the 
southeastern part of the quadrangle. Three miles east of Intercourse 
on the north side of the old State road is a quarry (No. 32) once 
operated by R. Z. Stelfuss for ground limestone. The pit is small, 
and the stone was crushed by portable machinery, which has been 
removed in 1925, Mr. Stelfuss operated a quarry one mile west of 
the present quarry in a white thick-bedded dolomite used to small 
extent in Lancaster for building stone. The John Martin quarry 
(No. 33) is north of the road between Buyerstown and Millwood 
School. The rock is fine white dolomite and hard knotty dolomite. 
The equipment includes an Ebersole crusher which pulverizes at the 

same “operation ds cashing. The machine is made by the Ebersole 
Machine Company of Blue Ball and is in use at other quarries in 
this region, including the Aaron Good & Bros. quarry (No. 23), and 
the John Landis (No. 31). 


PLATE V 





A. Clay pit of United Clay Brick Co., Ephrata. 





PLATE VI 





A. Dam on Conestoga Creek, Brownstown. 





B. Dam on Mill Creek at Mascot. 


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Clay and Shale. 

The Cocalico shale, which occurs in two belts in the northern part 
of the area, is not quarried for stone but clay residual from the for- 
mation is utilized for the manufacture of bricks. The clay pits 
(No. 31) of the United Clay Brick Company, of Ephrata, are located 
on the western outskirts of Ephrata on the north side of the shale 
hill (Plate V, A). The opening is 100 feet wide, 140 feet long into 
the hill with a 35-foot face of clay. Blue-white marble is exposed 
at the base of the face. A steam shovel is used for digging in the 
pit, and a rotary scoop drawn by a Fordson tractor for surface 
stripping. The plant includes the usual brick-making machinery, a 
hot-air drying tunnel with exhaust fan, three circular kilns (two 
of 60,000 and one of 80,000 capacity), and a storage shed. Electric 
power is used and the old steam engine and boilers are available 
when needed. The product is common red brick. 

If shale should be needed for the manufacture of Portland cement 
from limestone in this quadrangle, it is available in abundance. E. 
©. Eckel, of Washington, D. C., furnished the following analysis of 
Martinsburg shale from an outlier near Brownstown: SiO, 58.96, 
Al,O, 25.48, FeO, 4.29, CaO 0.98, MgO 3.38, CO, 6.66. 


Sand. 


Two formations in this quadrangle are sources of sand,—the 
Chickies quartzite and the Triassic basal sandstone. Sand is obtain- 
ed from small pits in the Chickies quartzite on Welsh Mountain 
north of Mount Airy (No. 32) and elsewhere. Sand is dug from these 
pits only occasionally and by no regular producer. This is a fairly 
pure, white sand used for building sand. Although no large openings 
have been made in the Chickies quartzite in the New Holland area 
the sand and pure white clay horizons of the Chickies are extensively 
worked two miles east of this quadrangle near Narvon. These 
quarries are favorably situated because of their proximity to the 
New Holland branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. North of Narvon 
the hard white quartzite where pure, is quarried for use as sand 
for firebricks and other refractories. This industry has not been 
developed in the New Holland area, although quartzite suitable for 
such a use occurs within two miles of Cedar Lane Station. 

The soft arkosic sandstone at the base of the Triassic disintegrates 
readily and when screened produces a good building sand. The W. 
B. Espensheid sand pit (No. 33) at Murrell, south of Ephrata, sup- 
plies local trade. The pit is 150 feet long, 50 feet wide, and 30 feet 
deep (Plate V, B). The sand is dug by hand, with light blasting, 
and moved by 1-horse scraper to a small portable crusher and screen 
operated by gasoline engine. The product, a yellow building sand, 
is delivered by truck. Half a mile east of this opening there are 
several idle pits in the same sand horizon. 


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Water Supply. 


The mean annual precipitation in the New Holland quadrangle is 
40) to 45 inches. Streams are numerous and well distributed. No 
place in the area is more than a mile or two from running water. 
Conestoga Creek, the largest stream, drains the north half of the 
quadrangle. Its size is illustrated by the accompanying picture of 
the creek and dam at Brownstown (Plate VI, A). 


The domestic water supply is derived very largely from shallow 
wells. The villages that have water systems are Akron, Blue Ball, 
Denver, Ephrata, and New Holland. Details of these systems as 
they were in 1914 are given in Water Resources Inventory Report, 
Part VI, Water Supply Commission of Pennsylvania, 1920. The 
following notes concerning the village systems are gleaned from 
that report. 


Akron. The municipal water works of Akron has three sources 
of supply, (1) three 8-inch drilled wells 111 to 157 feet deep; (2) a 
dug well 16 feet in diameter and 74 feet deep; (3) a spring 250 feet 
from the pumping station. Water is pumped to an 85,000 gallon 


equalizing standpipe and distributed through 4-to 8-inch mains. 


Blue Ball. A private system installed in 1908 has an 8-inch 
drilled well 250 feet deep from which water is pumped to a 10,000 
gallon tank and distributed by gravity through small pipes. 


Denver. A municipal system installed in 1900 utilizes three springs 
one to two miles north of the borough. These discharge through a 
4-inch gravity line to a 250,000 gallon reservoir. Distribution in the 
village is by gravity through an 8-inch pipe. 


Ephrata... The municipal water works were purchased in 1906 
from the Ephrata. Water Company. Several springs, some of which 
were obtained by tunneling 300 feet into the hill, feed to reservoirs. 
From August to December this supply is augmented by pumping 
four drilled wells $1 to 189 feet deep and 8 inches in diameter. The 
water is distributed from three reservoirs in 4-and 6-inch mains. 


New Holland. The New Holland Water Company takes water 
from Schupps springs on Welsh Mountain and pipes it through 8- 
and 10-inch mains. The springs are 140 feet above the borough. 


Sage Wells. 

In the smaller villages and hamlets and in the country, the main 
source of domestic water is shallow dug wells. Adamstown, Bare- 
ville, Birdinhand, Paradise, Terre Hill, and other small settlements 
have no other source except cisterns provided for holding rain water 
caught on roofs. According to those of whom inquiry was made, dug 
wells are rarely more than 25 feet deep.- Drilled wells are not so. 
common and are shallow. In many places wells strike water at less 


PLATE VII 





A. Dam on Mill Creek at Fertility and site of Denninger limestone quarry 





a} 


B. Water power on Muddy Run one-half mile north of Leacock Church. 


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than 15 feet and some wells are not more than 7 or 8 feet deep. In 
much of the quadrangle the water is hard because the bedrock is ime- 
stone. Water in the Triassic sandstone and shale areas is much 
softer. In some places, as at Reamstown, where there is a definite : 
line between sandstone and limestone areas, wells on one side of a 
community yield hard water and on the other side soft water. 


An artesian well at Leaman Place may be the deepest well in the 
area. It is a few rods from a limestone quarry on the north side of 
Lincoln Highway. This hole was drilled by a stock company in 
search for oil in 1920 because oil was found in a 14-foot dug well at 
the residence of John Welsh 200 feet away. No oil was obtained in 
the hole, which is reported to be more than one thousand feet deep. 
Water rose to the top of the casing and continues to flow. The well 
discharge about fills a 14-inch pipe. As the hole is in limestone the 
water is hard. 


Water Power. 


Fifty to one hundred years ago many mills were built in Lancaster 
‘County to grind grain. These were located on streams where a low 
dam would provide water power. Although electric power is now 
available in the same area, the old waterpower grist mills are still 
running. Most grist mill dams are 4 to 6 feet high, of stone, with a 
plank apron. Such dams are on Conestoga Creek at Brownstown 
-and Spring Grove, and on Mill Creek at Fertility and Mascot (Plates 
Witand2V Li eA)y: 


At some farms water power has been developed to run a churn or 
‘washing machine. Loose stone dumped in Muddy Creek just above 
the covered bridge 1$ miles west of Martindale raise that stream 
about two feet and divert water to a small wheel which provides 
power in the nearby farm house. This shows how a little labor on 
man’s part may provide a constant labor-saving device for the women 
on a farm. 


Still smaller water power developments are those installed for 
pumping water. On Muddy Run half a mile north of Leacock Church 
-a concrete dam about 8 feet long gives a fall of 18 inches. A 30-inch 
undershot wheel is connected through bell-cranks and wire to pumps 
in farm houses 150-200 yards away. This inexpensive, home-made, 
‘labor-saving device, shown in Plate VII, B, furnishes running water 
‘in house and barn. Many opportunities to develop small water 
“powers sucha 


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INDEX. 


Adamstown, 5, 16, 17, 23, 34 
Akron, 7, 14, 16, 19, 34 
Algae, 13 

Alumina, 21 

Antietam quartz schist, 19 
Antietam quartzite, 9, 10, 
Argillites, 6 

Arkosie sandstone, 16, 17, 
Augite, 18 

Auroral limestone, 5 


18 


Bareville, 12, 29, 34 

Bareville Conerete Works, 29 

Bareville-New Holland Ridge, 29 

Beekmantown 13, 14-16, 1°, 

21, 28 

Beiler, Aaron, 30 

Bellmont quarries, 15 

Biotite, 9, 10 

Birdinhand, 34 

Black River-Chazy limestone, 5 

Blue Ball, 28, 34 

Brachiopods, 11, 12 

Brecknock Hills, 7 

Brick. oo 

Brownstown, 14, 24, 28, 34, 36 
analyses of limestone near, 

Brownstown Valley, 19 

Brubaker, James W., 29 

Burkholder, David, quarry, 28 

Buyerstown, 11, 30 


limestone, 


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On, 


Calcite, 14, 28 
Calcium carbonate, 21 
Cambrian limestone, 19 
Cambrian quartzite, 5, 6 
Cambro-Silurian limestone, 6 
Canadian age, 14 
Cedar Lane Station, 33 
Chazyan age, 14, 15 
Ghert) 12. 13 
Chestnut School, 17 
Chiekies quartzite, 9, 10, 33 
Clay, 10, 20, 33 
Clay School, 27 
Coatesville, 5 
Coealico Creek, 7, 14, 24, 27 
Cocalico shale, 14-16, 18-20, 24, 33 
Columbia, 5 
Conglomerate, 8, 16, 17 
Hellam, 9, 10 
Triassic, 15 


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Conestoga Creek, 7, 24, 27, 28, 34, 36 

Conestoga limestone, 14, 15, 30 

Conestoga Portland Cement Company, 24 

Conestoga Traction Company, 5, 28 

Conocochergue limestone, 12, 13, 15, 16, 
195-2128 

Crinoids, 14 

Crossroads School, 13 


Crystallines, 6 


Delaware River, 6, 16 
Denninger, J. H., quarry, 29, 30 
description of, 30 
Denver, 5, 14, 16, 19, 24, 

Diabase, 17, 18, 20 
as road metal, 18, 20 
Triassic, 8 
Dolomite, 11-18, 21,'.24, 27-30 
chemical composition of, 21 
Ledger?:9. 11" 12215)" 19. 21: 30 
thickness of, 12 
Tomstown, 9 
Mintages23, ti 2 1h 27 
thickness of, 11 


OT 34 


Eckel, EX. C., analyses from, 21 
EIlbrook limestone, 12, 13, 15, 21, 29 
thickness of, 13 
Hozoic gneisses, 6 
Ephrata, 5, 7,14, 16, 23, 24, 
34 
syncline, 18-20 
Ephrata-Akron hills, 13 
Ephrata Mountain, 16 
Ephrata Water Company, 34 
Epidote, 9 
Espensheid, W. B., sand pit, 33 
Tairmount, 14 
Feldspar, 9, 10, 16, 18 
Fertility, 30, 36 
Frazer, Persifor, Jr., cited, 6 


Zig 28; 738, 


Gabbro, 8, 9 

rastropod, 14 

Geist, 10, 11 

xettysburg shale, 17 
thickness of, 17 

Gneiss, 9 


Bl] aBigoie, 6 


graphitic, 9 
x0ckley 27 
Good, Aaron & Bros., quarry, 29, 30 


lad 


38 
Good, William R., quarry, 28 Limestone, cont'd. i 
Good wlle, eek Le Cambrian, 19 
Gordonville, 19 Cambro-Silurian, 6 
Graben, 20 chemical composition of, 21 
Graphite, 9 color of, 21 
Graphitie gneiss, 9 Conestoga, 14, 15, 30 
Granite, 8, 9, 18 Conococheague, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 
Graptolites, 14 2s 
Green Bank School, 10 crystalline, 8 
Groff, Clayton, quarry, 29 Elbrook, 12,°13,°15, °21, 29 


thickness of, 13 
Lower Cambrian, 6 
magnesian, 12, 14, 29 


Hahnstown, 14, 16, 27 

Harpers formation, 11 

Ilarpers phyllite, 9, 10 

Hellam conglomerate, 9, 19 
thickness of, 10 

Heller Church, 19 

Hertzog, R. M., quarry, 27 

Hinkletown, 27, 28 

Hollow Sehool ridge, 11, 19 

Honeybrook, 5, 7, 9 


quarries, 24 

uses, of 523; (24 
Limonite, 11 
Lindengrove, 13 
Lower Cambrian limestone, 6 
Lower Cambrian rocks, 19 
Lower Cambrian series, 9, 10, 12 





Hornblende schists, 9 Magnesia, 21 
Horst, 20 Magnesian limestone, 12, 14, 29 
Hunsecker, 138 Magnetite, 18 

: Manheim, 28 
Intercourse, 29, 30 Marble, 12-15, 28, 29, 33 
poner Martin, C. S., 28 
Jonas, A. ic cited, 15 Martin, Ferris, 28 


lod 


Martin, Henry, quarry, 27 


Keller, S. B., quarry, 27 Martin, John, quarry, 30 
King, A. B., quarry, 29 Martindale; 14, 17, 28, 36 
Kinzers 12 Martinsburg shale, 33 
Kinzers formation, 9, 11, 12, 15, 30 analyses of, 33 
thickness of, 12 Mascot, 36 

Knopf, E. B., cited, 6 Meade, R. K., 24 
Kurtz Bros. Conerete Products Com- Mechanicsburg, 10, 12, 19, 20 

pany, 24, 27 Mesozoie sandstone, 6 
Kurtz, H. I., quarry, 27 Meyers, Elmer, quarry, 29 


; Mica, 11 
Labradorite, 18 pie oe 
Lancaster, 5 Po DAC) Middle Creek, 27 

< Santer, Uy, mts mt, e 3 
Landis, John, 30 Millard, Harry, quarry, 24 
Lit icine ee? 


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Laurel Hill, 10-12, 19, 20 ME ASN ye” 

5 es an Milter, 25. 3. .cited, 21 
Leacock Churel, 10, 36 


] y 5 9 
Leaman Place, 9, 11, 14, 15, 30, 35 Peo School, 30 
Tcdbee 10st 19 Mineral resources, 20 
Auedstl, 1tUvta, Af, : i 
Ledger dolomite, 9, 11, 12, 15, 19, 21, 30 Mine tee peo 18, 19 
thickness of, 12 Heat Bike a S. | 
5 Ga Esa - Mudd reek, 16, 29° 36 
Limestone, 9; 18-15;°20, 21, 23, 24,0272." 4-3 ‘ 
20. 26 Muddy Run, 56 
2 7 a 99 
analyses of, 21, 22 Murrell, 38 
Auroral, 6 


Musselman quarry, 28 
Beekmantown, 13-16, 19, 21, 28 Narvon, 33 


Black River-Chazy, 6 Nasusia festinata Billings, 12 








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13 J 


New Holland, 5, 7, 12, 29, 34 
New Holland Concrete Works, 24, 28 
New Holland Water Company, 34 


Obolella, 10 
Olenellus, 12 
Ophileta, 14: 


Paleozoic rocks, 8, 11, 14-16, 18, 20 
Paradise, 28, 54 
Pequea Creek, 7, 30 
Phoenixville, 20 
Phyllite, 8, 10 

Harpers, 10 

thickness of, 10 

quartzose, 10 
Piedmont province, 7 
Plagioclase, 18 
Pleasant View School, 9 
Portland cement, 24, 33 
Potsdam quartzite, 6 
Pre-Cambrian rocks, 8, 18, 19 
Primal sandstone, 5 
Pyroxene, 9 


Quartz, 9,. 14, 16 
conglomerate, 16 

Quartzite,8,. 10,-11,; 20, 3: 
Antietam, 9, 410; 1) 
Cambrian, 5, 6 
Chickies, 9, 10, 33 
Potsdam, 6 
Scolithus-bearing, 6 
sericitic, 10 

Quartz schist, 9, 10 
Antietam, 19 


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NW. 


Reading, 5, 23 
Reamstown, 16, 
Red Run, 16 
Red Well School, 10, 12 
Rocks, 8 
igneous, 8S 
Paleozoic, 8,11, 14-16, 18, 20 
pre-Cambrian, 8, 18, 19 
sedimentary, 8 
character of, 8 
Triassic, 8, 15-17, 19, 20, 28 
Rogers, Henry D., cited, 5 


Rutt, George B., 28 
Salisbury, 11 
Salterella, 12 

Sand, 16, 20, 33 


39 Sn en 


Sandstone, 8, 12-14, 16, 17, 20, 36 
arkosic, 16, 17, 338 
thickness of, 17 
Mesozoie, 6 
Primal, 5 
Triassic, 15, 19,. 24, 33, 36 
Schoeneck, 17, 27 
Sechupps springs, 34 
Scolithus tubes, 10 
Shaffer, Jacob, 30 
Shale, 6, 8, 14, 20, 33, 36 
Cocalico, 14-16, 18-20, 24, 33 
Gettysburg, 17 
thickness of, 17 
Martinsburg, 33 
analyses of, 33 
Triassic, 15 
Showalter, J. C., quarry, 27, 28 
Shriener, Eli, quarry, 28 
Silica, 21 
Slate 16.062 10,15 
Smoketown, 14 
Soudersburg, 30 
South Mountain, 16 
Spring Grove, 13, 17, 28, 36 
Stelfuss;, R. Z., quarry, 30 
Stones RR. W.,- data by, 6 
Stony Run, 27 
stose;. GoW .4 cited..6,-14.- 15, 20 
Strophomena siosei, 15 


lewd 


Susquehanna River, 6, 7 


Terre Hill, 5, 16-18" 28, 34 
Tomstown dolomite, 9 
Trap, 6 
Triassic conglomerates, 15 
Triassic diabase, 8 
Triassic rocks, 8, 15-17, 19, 20, 28 
Triassic sandstones, 15, 19, 24, 33, 36 
Triassic sediments, 15, 16 
Triassic shales, 15 
Tribolite, 10-12 
APIO lise We 
Turritoma, 14 
United Clay Brick Company, 33 
Vintage, 10-12, 15, 23 
dolomite: «9,0 Liv A L221 jo 
thickness of, 11 } 


Walcott C.D: scited. 6... 14 


Water power, 56 on 
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Water Supply, 34 


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ay = 40 


Waynesboro formation, 15 Welsh Mountain, 6, 7, 9, 10, 19, 29, 33. } \ 
Weaver, Frank, 28 34 aa 


Weaver, Mary, 27 anticline, 18, 19 
Weaverland, 28 elevation of, 7 
Weavertown, 11 York, 15 

Wells, 34 Zeimer estate, 28 
Welsh, John, 36 Zook, Levi, quarry, 29 


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